Re: ITP on cygwin-apps

2009-06-20 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Federico Hernandez wrote: Hi! I was just wondering about the customs on cygwon-apps. I have posted an ITP for a package to be included in cygwin which is in Fedora, but haven't got any feedback yet. Before asking again for a review I wanted to know what are the general guidelines, customs on re

Re: Cygwin 1.7: Possible error in /etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh

2009-06-20 Thread Mark Harig
Dave Korn wrote: > > Is this problem with the Logitech Process Monitor service > described in the Cygwin documentation? http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda Thanks again for the additional information. I will be working my way through the entire FAQ at that link.

Re: Cygwin 1.7: Possible error in /etc/postinstall/rxvt.sh

2009-06-20 Thread Charles Wilson
Mark Harig wrote: > 1. > 2. > 3. Sure, all those things would be great, and given the limited time the few volunteers have to address such things it'd be great to satisfy that checklist. But if we had to meet some zero-defect six-sigma policy, cygwin would have about four packages total. We'l

Re: Cygwin 1.7: Possible error in /etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh

2009-06-20 Thread Dave Korn
Mark Harig wrote: >> >> > Potential app conflicts: >> > > Logitech Process Monitor service >> > Detected: HKLM Registry Key, Named process. >> >> You definitely need to stop and disable that service. It borks cygwin >> something rotten. >> > Thank you. I will try that (anything to give my cy

Re: Cygwin 1.7: Possible error in /etc/postinstall/rxvt.sh

2009-06-20 Thread Mark Harig
That having been said...rxvt is stealing a march by assuming /etc/X11/app-defaults/ exists. It's not clear -- if all the other packages did it the "rxvt way" -- WHO exactly should be responsible for creating the directory. 1. 'rxvt' is advertised as being available without X, so it ca

Re: Cygwin 1.7: Possible error in /etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh

2009-06-20 Thread Mark Harig
> Potential app conflicts: > > Logitech Process Monitor service > Detected: HKLM Registry Key, Named process. You definitely need to stop and disable that service. It borks cygwin something rotten. Thank you. I will try that (anything to give my cygwin processes better behavior than th

Re: Cygwin 1.7: Possible error in /etc/postinstall/rxvt.sh

2009-06-20 Thread Charles Wilson
Mark Harig wrote: > Is the 'rxvt' package responsible for creating these > missing directories? Well, *I* think they ought to be created by the X system. Currently, you kinda get them by default IF you install any of the X-related packages, because unlike rxvt, those other package directly incor

ITP on cygwin-apps

2009-06-20 Thread Federico Hernandez
Hi! I was just wondering about the customs on cygwon-apps. I have posted an ITP for a package to be included in cygwin which is in Fedora, but haven't got any feedback yet. Before asking again for a review I wanted to know what are the general guidelines, customs on reposting requests for a revie

Re: Cygwin 1.7: Possible error in /etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh

2009-06-20 Thread Dave Korn
Mark Harig wrote: > Potential app conflicts: > > Logitech Process Monitor service > Detected: HKLM Registry Key, Named process. You definitely need to stop and disable that service. It borks cygwin something rotten. cheers, DaveK -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problem

Cygwin 1.7: Possible error in /etc/postinstall/rxvt.sh

2009-06-20 Thread Mark Harig
After running setup-1.7.exe to install the package 'rxvt', I found the following error in /var/log/setup.log.full: 2009/06/20 16:00:17 running: C:\cygwin-1.7\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile -c /etc/postinstall/rxvt.sh Using the default version of /etc/X11/app-defaults/Rxvt (/etc/defaults/etc/X1

Re: UAC .manifest files

2009-06-20 Thread Peter Rosin
Den 2009-06-20 09:05 skrev Charles Wilson: Peter Rosin wrote: ltwrappers are just replacing the old wrappers AFAIK, and those are indeed needed by the MSVC patches, so that premise has already changed. If you can't be bothered to cooperate with those patches then I can switch to arguing that cc

Re: read -t hangs sometimes with pipes

2009-06-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 09:14:08PM +0200, Matthias Meyer wrote: >Sometimes pipes, created with mknod, seems not to be work fully correct. > >Most of the time I can do: >mknod /var/run/CONT p >read -t 2 signal < /var/run/CONT. > >After 2 seconds I receive a timeout and the read returns. >But sometim

read -t hangs sometimes with pipes

2009-06-20 Thread Matthias Meyer
Hi, Sometimes pipes, created with mknod, seems not to be work fully correct. Most of the time I can do: mknod /var/run/CONT p read -t 2 signal < /var/run/CONT. After 2 seconds I receive a timeout and the read returns. But sometimes the read will wait forever. And also if I write something to /va

Cygwin 1.7: Uninstalling all (base) packages using setup-1.7.exe

2009-06-20 Thread Mark Harig
After installing all default, base packages in Cygwin, I attempted to uninstall this base set by clicking on the "cycle" button/icon of the 'All' category (while the setup view for packages was set to 'Category') until 'Uninstall' was displayed for 'All' and for all sub-categories. When I clicked

Re: cygwin-1.7.0-50

2009-06-20 Thread Charles Wilson
Christopher Faylor wrote: > Given the fact that I added the previous "add data after the dll was > loaded" code, which apparently caused its share of remap problems, I > think this particular "accomplishment" is pretty much a zero. Doesn't matter. I'm still overjoyed. If it wouldn't get me perm

Re: Cygwin 1.7: Possible error in /etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh

2009-06-20 Thread Mark Harig
'dirname' is /usr/bin/dirname. Does setup-1.7.exe set PATH before running 'base-files-profile.sh'? If not, then this would account for the error. It is possible to rewrite the command without using 'dirname': /bin/mkdir -p ${fDest%/*} $ cygcheck -f /etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh bas

Cygwin 1.7: Possible file permission errors in 'base-files'

2009-06-20 Thread Mark Harig
The two files 'base-files-mketc.sh' and 'base-files-profiles.sh' included in the 'base-files' package have their permissions set to 644 while all other scripts in /etc/postinstall/ have their permissions set to 755. Is this a side-effect of 'base-files-profiles.sh' not completing without errors,

Re: Cygwin 1.7: Possible error in /etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh

2009-06-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 11:39:59AM -0400, Mark Harig wrote: >When I ran setup-1.7.exe with the default set of packages >selected, the following error message was displayed: > >running: C:\cygwin-1.7\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile -c >/etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh >abnormal exit: exit cod

Re: cygwin-1.7.0-50

2009-06-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 01:36:01PM +0200, Vincent R. wrote: >Don't know how you fix it but now I am able to use git on cygwin 1.7 and >using cygwin protocol. >So cygwin is as stable as 1.5 for my use. Now, *that* one was probably one of Corinna's many changes to networking. cgf -- Unsubscribe in

Re: cygwin-1.7.0-50

2009-06-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 01:02:17AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 12:01:41AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> And, just for the sake of accuracy, there should be fewer "unable to >> remaps" thanks to my 2009-06-07 change. > >Yeah -- now I remem

Cygwin 1.7: Possible error in /etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh

2009-06-20 Thread Mark Harig
When I ran setup-1.7.exe with the default set of packages selected, the following error message was displayed: running: C:\cygwin-1.7\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile -c /etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh abnormal exit: exit code=-1073741819 'base-files-profile.sh' contains the following li

Some files are missing from cygwin-doc version 1.5-1

2009-06-20 Thread Mark Harig
setup-1.7.exe installs the package 'cygwin-doc', version 1.5-1. This package includes /usr/share/info/cygwin.info. cygwin.info references two files, 'cygwin-ug-net.info' and 'cygwin-api.info', which are not included in 'cygwin-doc': $ cygcheck -c cygwin-doc Cygwin Package Information Package

Re: cygwin-1.7.0-50

2009-06-20 Thread Vincent R.
Don't know how you fix it but now I am able to use git on cygwin 1.7 and using cygwin protocol. So cygwin is as stable as 1.5 for my use. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: {libtool/libltdl7}-2.2.7a-13

2009-06-20 Thread Charles Wilson
GNU libtool is a generic library support script. Libtool hides the complexity of using shared libraries behind a consistent, portable interface. This is a bugfix and feature enhancement update. [[ compiled using gcc-3.4.4-999 ]] This release is specific for cygwin-1.7, but it differs from the si

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {libtool/libltdl7}-2.2.7a-4

2009-06-20 Thread Charles Wilson
GNU libtool is a generic library support script. Libtool hides the complexity of using shared libraries behind a consistent, portable interface. This is a bugfix update. [[ compiled using gcc-3.4.4-999 ]] Unless there are serious issues with this package, it is likely to be the last version of l

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {xz/liblzma-devel}-4.999.8beta_20090605-1; New: liblzma1-4.999.8beta_20090605-1

2009-06-20 Thread Charles Wilson
The xz package is the successor to lzma. Its command-line tools support both .lzma files and the new .xz format, and it ships with compatibility links so you don't even need to retrain your fingers: 'lzma', 'lzcat', etc, are all still present. However, you probably should: .xz files are already be

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: {xz/liblzma-devel}-4.999.8beta_20090605-10; New: liblzma1-4.999.8beta_20090605-10

2009-06-20 Thread Charles Wilson
The xz package is the successor to lzma. Its command-line tools support both .lzma files and the new .xz format, and it ships with compatibility links so you don't even need to retrain your fingers: 'lzma', 'lzcat', etc, are all still present. However, you probably should: .xz files are already be

Re: UAC .manifest files

2009-06-20 Thread Charles Wilson
Peter Rosin wrote: > ltwrappers are just replacing the old wrappers AFAIK, and those are > indeed needed by the MSVC patches, so that premise has already changed. > > If you can't be bothered to cooperate with those patches then I can > switch to arguing that cccl (wrapper for MSVC) is supported b